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Marginal learning gains is inspired by the same philosophy that underpinned the extraordinary success of Team GB Cycling at the Beijing and London Olympics. The philosophy is simple: focus on doing a few small things really well. Once you do this, aggregating the gains you make will become part of a bigger impact on learning. For students, for teachers and schools. Join the MLG conversation with Zoe Elder @fullonlearning on Twitter

Cadence

Cadence (cycling)“In cycling, cadence is the number of revolutions of the crank per minute; roughly speaking, this is the rate at which a cyclist is pedalling/turning the pedals. Cadence is similar in some ways to wheel speed, but is a distinct measurement.”

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The Marginal Learning Gains approach looks like the illustration above…

And in case you wanted to hear from the source of inspiration for this whole approach, here is Dave Brailsford (not Beresford) speaking during the London 2012 Olympics. This video originally appeared on YouTube, created and uploaded by PEGILL123 here.